Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-05-12

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An English syndicate has purchased
| the MulattoS mine in Mexico for
] 100000.
1t is announced that the Milwaukee
ana st. Paul road will be extended to
Bismarck, Dakota, before fall.
Judge James Bradley, pioneer and
prominent citizen of La Porte, Indi-
! ana, is dead at the age of ".
| A rumor comes from across the
water that Germany will soon declare
martial law in Alsace-Lorraine.
A number of new railroad enter
priSes, to be carried out by American
capital, are projected in Mexico.
Tom Gould, the keeper of a notori-
Gus dive in New York, has been fined
81 900 for violating the excise law.
f, The New York assembly passed the
railroad commission bill for the heat
ing of passenger coaches by steam.
a bill prohibiting the use OF store
orders, scrip, or notes in payment of
labor has passed the Michigan assem-
bly,.
Near Proctor, West Virginia, three
| colOred thieves, the brothers Sylvester.
were hanged to a tree by white citi-
ZenS.
Thomas a. Edison and a party of
eight friends recently had narrow
| escape from drowning at Barlow,
| Florida.
The cOal-miners in the Hazleton dis
trlct OF Pennsylvania have decided to
ask an advance of 10 per cent in their
wages.
The losses in. the recent hurricane in
the pearl-fisheries off the Australian
coast are now estimated at go lives
and q boats.
Transcontinental lines are begin
ming to be troubled by the Pacific Mail
steamship and Canada Pacific railway
competition.
The schooner FLYING Scud was re-
Gently lost off the coast OF Alaska,
with the owner, captain, ana fourteen
native hunters.
Milo Ii. Dakin, a member of the
Michigan house having been convicted
OF soliciting bribes, Was expelled by
unanimous vote.
The Postal Telegraph company has
entered The field for California bust
ness at tie rate Of 81 for ten words
a cut Of enc third.
Judge james r. Bobo, of Decatur,
Indiana. Oh Saturday inflicted fine
upon lis OWL son l0r assault and bat
terry and intCX:catiOn.
Thirteen Thousand coke workers in
the COnneLsviIle region struck on
Wednesday for an advance Of 128 per
cent. in their wages.
General w. T. Sherman was chosen
commander Of the Ohio commandery
OF the Loyal Legion at its annual
meeting in Cincinnati.
Umpire Jackson's award against the
proposed advance in miners wages
Will probably cause a general strike in
the Connellsville region.
The Michigan Central road has made
arrangements with the Canadian Pa
cific by which trains of the latter will
run to the Western States.
Thirty-five thousand dollars of Al
per cent, Dakota bonds have Just been
negotiated at premium of per cent.
including accrued interest.
1t is reported that the st. Paul road
is likely to be extended this year to
Bismarck, and that land for terminal
facilities is now being acquired.
DR.. c. n. Hewitt, president of the
Minnesota board Of health, declares
positively that there is not a case OF
pleurO-pneumOnia in that state.
The Petit Journal, of Paris, has just
declared dividend of 10 per cent. on
1865 amounted to over 81, 100000.
Judge Van Brunt, of New York,
denied the motion to quash the in
dictment against Jacob Sharp, late
president of the Broadway railroad.
After boring to a depth of 1,136 feet
at Lafayette, Indiana, for natural gas,
a strong vein Of salt water was found,
and the enterprise was abandoned.
J. p. Harrington, of Erie, who was
seriously injured in the Nickel-Plate
disaster at Silver Creek, has sued the
railroad company for $4,000 damages.
w. c. De PAW, the well-known
plate-glass manufacturer of Indiana,
was stricken with apoplexy Wednes-
day evening, and is not expected to
live.
The marriage of Father Vaudry, in
charge of a Catholic church at Baton
Rouge, was followed by divorce to
the wife on the ground Of aban-
donment.
AS a precaution against spies, Gene
men shall be excluded from French
forts, except when accompanied by
soldiers.
Charles w. Smith, claiming to be a
theatrical agent in Chicago, has again
been arrested for shipping young girls
to dens of infamy in the mining camps
of Wisconsin.
President Cleveland has RENTED fine
and costs in the case of Elisha B. Case,
who has just completed two years.
term at Joliet for the forgery Of pen
sion vouchers.
A list Of those indicted in St. Louis
by the Federal grand jury for election
| frauds includes thirteen persons, near
ly all of whom have been prominent
in local politics.
There was total of 191 failures in
| the United States and Canada the last
week, against 1919 for the preceding
week and 207 for the corresponding
week last year.
An order by the chief of police at
| Toledo that every gambling-house be
closed by midnight caused the packing
and shipping to Detroit of every faro
layout in the city.
John n. Taggart. paying teller of
| the Union Trust company at Phila-
delphia, who disappeared about April
| IS. proves to have embeZzled 800, 200
of the company's funds.